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FAKE CLONING CLAIMS. "Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced cloning expert from South Korea who had claimed major breakthroughs in stem-cell research, was convicted Monday of falsifying his papers and embezzling government research funds." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/world/asia/27clone.html?ref=hwangwoosuk View in LinkedIn

KOREAN CLONING FACILITY. "Ten years ago, Woo Suk Hwang rose to the top of his field before fraud and dodgy bioethical practices derailed his career. Hwang opened Sooam in July 2006. He has since cloned hundreds of animals — dogs, cows, pigs and coyotes. They have joined forces to try to clone a mammoth from ancient tissue dug from permafrost." http://lnkd.in/dg6_kYA View in LinkedIn

HUMAN CLONING BENEFITS. "Embryonic stem cells can be grown to produce organs or tissues to repair or replace damaged ones. Skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, spinal cord cells for quadriplegics and paraplegics, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys could be produced." Plus treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, and other diseases. http://www.humancloning.org/benefits.html View in LinkedIn

CHINESE CLONING LEADERSHIP: "the world's biggest and possibly first “cloning factory,” but also the world’s largest center for gene sequencing ... BGI has plans to sequence the genomes of a million people, a million animals, and a million plants, which is an ambitious task considering other genome projects." http://lnkd.in/dVVhTRV View in LinkedIn

CLONED HUMAN CELLS. "In the 18 years since researchers cloned a sheep, scientists have found another way to produce cloned human cell lines. And the other technique, which produces "induced pluripotent stem cells," skips the step that requires a human egg cell, so some people find it less fraught, ethically." http://lnkd.in/dPWi6p5 View in LinkedIn

CHINESE CLONING FACTORY. "This place produces an astonishing 500 cloned pigs a year: China is exploiting science on an industrial scale. Run by a fast-growing company called BGI, this facility has become the world's largest centre for the cloning of pigs." http://lnkd.in/d7sKrry View in LinkedIn

SKIN FROM 75 YEAR OLD CLONED. "Breakthrough in cloning adult stem cells may mean body parts can be grown for elderly patients. The advance could lead to new tissue-transplant operations for a range of debilitating disorders. Last year, a team created stem cells from the skin cells of babies, but it was unclear whether it would work in adults." http://lnkd.in/dzqZnRj View in LinkedIn

RAPID PROGRESS IN BIOSCI. "In just 6 years, researchers have reduced the cost of genome reading by a millionfold, and we are now accomplishing a similar effort in writing DNA ... can generate 60 million linked bases ... Moreover, we can now create expansive genetic libraries, generating billions of genome variants per day using targeted mutagenesis." http://lnkd.in/dtEuJdS View in LinkedIn

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS CLONED FROM HUMAN SKIN (2014). "They started with nuclear DNA extracted from the skin cells of a middle-age man and ... They injected it into 77 human egg cells, and ... managed to create two viable cells that contained DNA from one or the other man. Each of those two cells is able to divide indefinitely." http://lnkd.in/dPWi6p5 View in LinkedIn

CHURCH'S REGENESIS PREDICTS SYNBIO IN DE-EXTINCTION. "Full-blown genomic engineering will make possible incredible feats, from resurrecting woolly mammoths and other extinct organisms to creating mirror life forms with a molecular structure the opposite of our own." http://lnkd.in/dcuGV2g View in LinkedIn